Germany 1890-E 20 pfennig

Steve Album sale 51, lot 1017

This specimen was lot 1017 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $600. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY: Kaiserreich, 20 pfennig, 1890-E, struck at the Muldenhütten Mint, a beautiful choice mint state example, PCGS graded MS65." This coin is a copper-nickel twenty pfennig from a type issued 1890 and 1892 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Dresden (mintmark "E", shown here), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G") and Hamburg (mintmark "J") mints. Under the German Empire of 1871-1918, the denominations of two mark and up were permitted for the formerly independent principalities while the lower denominations (one pfennig thru one mark) were minted to a unified design.

Recorded mintage: 373,304.

Specification: 6.25 g, copper-nickel, 23 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-13, J-14.

Source:

• Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

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• Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1890-A 10 mark
• Saxe-Meiningen 1890-D 10 mark
• Wurttemberg 1890-F 10 mark
• 1892-E 20 pfennig
• Coins and currency dated 1890